Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward. He covers Jewish religious organizations, synagogue life, anti-Semitism and the Orthodox world. If you have any tips, you can email him at feldman@forward.com. Follow him on Twitter @aefeldman.
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By Ari Feldman
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News Nick Cannon reveals Jewish ancestry as he ‘atones’ with rabbi for anti-Semitic podcast episode
The actor Nick Cannon, who said he is “atoning” for anti-Semitic comments made on his podcast, revealed on Monday that he has Jewish ancestry — a Sephardic great-grandfather who was a rabbi. Cannon was talking to Rabbi Noam Marans, director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations at the American Jewish Committee, about the process of making…
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News Jewish schools across the country are opening in-person — but planning for a second wave
A lifetime ago, SAR Academy in the Bronx became one of the first schools in the country to close down due to the coronavirus. A parent had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and his daughter, who attends SAR’s high school, was showing symptoms as well. Without warning, the school was forced to figure out how to…
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News How did the American Jewish Congress hire a budding white nationalist?
A political activist with ties to white nationalists, who in June led a rally defending a statue of Teddy Roosevelt, worked recently as the marketing director of the American Jewish Congress, a century-old organization that was once the voice of working-class Jews on anti-Nazism and civil rights. Gavin Wax, 26, is a graduate of Baruch…
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Fast Forward Pressure on Philadelphia NAACP leader to resign after posting anti-Semitic meme
Rodney Muhammad, the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP, is under pressure to resign from local and state officials in the organization after he posted an anti-Semitic meme to his public Facebook page, according to a report in The Philadelphia Tribune. The meme Muhammad posted featured a caricature called “The Happy Merchant.” The…
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Fast Forward A county prosecutor is running on being ‘truly a Christian’ — against a Jewish opponent
A Jewish candidate for county attorney in Michigan is taking offense to ads from his opponent, who in a recent mailing and Facebook post calls himself “a candidate… who is truly a Christian.” Stuart Fenton is running to be the top prosecutor in Emmet County, in northern Michigan. His opponent, James Linderman, a four-term incumbent,…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle drug’ Dr. Vladimir Zelenko is tweeting pro-Trump conspiracy theories
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko is just one week out of what he has described as an emergency heart surgery to remove a tumor. But the country’s most famous proponent of hydroxychloroquine is already back online: He’s promoting the unproven drug as a treatment for COVID-19 and tweeting conspiratorially about what he sees as the political reasons…
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News Insurgent New York primary victories could signal shift in Orthodox voting
In the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic and historic protests over systemic racism in American society, three New York electoral districts with large Jewish communities are getting new political representation for the first time in well over a generation. The heavily Jewish Riverdale section of the Bronx as well as Rockland and Westchester Counties are…
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News TikTok has a Jew hatred problem. Do Jews on the app think it’s worth saving?
There’s a new song making the rounds in the Jewish corner of TikTok, the colorful video-based social media platform so beloved by tweens, teens and people in their twenties: Nicki Minaj rapping over the Hora. Since the remix was first published on the TikTok in June, the Jews of “Jewish TikTok” — a community dominated…
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